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Schools to be registered or provisionally registered.
Application for registra tion of school.
(2) The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, withdraw wholly or partly the exemption conferred by subsection (1) on any school and the owners, managers, teachers or pupils of the school.
(3) The Governor in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance-
(a) any school or class or description of school; and (b) the owners, managers, teachers or pupils of such school
or class or description of school,
op such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit.
(4) An order under subsection (3) exempting a school from section 10 shall not preclude the making of an application for registration of the school or the registration or provisional registration of the school, and if the school is registered or provisionally registered the exemption shall cease to have effect.
(5) The Director may, by order in writing, exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance-
(a) any school which provides education consisting only of a series of lectures, or a course of instruction in a partic- ular subject or topic;
(b) any school which provides less than ten hours of
academic instruction each week; and
(c) the owners, managers, teachers or pupils of any school
referred to in paragraph (0) or (8),
on such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit.
PART II.
REGISTRATION AND PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION OF SCHOOLS.
10. (1) Every school shall be registered or provisionally registered.
(2) If a school provides evening instruction in addition to other education, there shall be deemed to be a separate school in respect of the evening instruction and such separate school shall also be registered or provisionally registered.
11. An application for registration of a school shall be-
(4) made to the Director by an approved manager in the
prescribed form; and
(b) accompanied—
(1) by the documents specified in such form: and (ii) if the school is to be operated in or in any part of any premises which are not designed and constructed for the purposes of a school, by the additional documents specified in subsection (1) of section 12.
12. (1) The documents referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph (b) of section 11 sball be--
(0) a certificate from the competent authority as to his opinion with regard to the suitability for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated, having regard to the loading for which they are designed and constructed; (6) a certificate from the competent authority that the prem- ises in or in part of which the school is to be operated do not have structural timber floors;
(c) a certificate from the Director of Fire Services that the use for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated would not expose the persons in the school premises to any undue risk of fire, and that in the event of fire in the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated the means of escape for all the persons in the premises (including the persons in the school premises) would be adequate;
(d) if the Buildings Ordinance applies to the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated, a notice in writing from the Building Authority stating that he does not intend, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25 of that Ordinance, to prohibit the use for the purposes of a school of the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated; and
(e) if
(1) the competent authority has certified under para- graph (a) that in his opinion the premises or the part of the premises in which the school is to be operated are not suitable for the purposes of a school, having regard to the loading for which they are designed and con- structed:
(i) the premises in or in part of which the school is to be operated were erected prior to the 1st day of January 1946; or
Additional documents
required where premises not designed and constructed as a school.
(Cup. (23.)